During my time at the 2016 SMITE World Championship, I had the chance to sit down with co-founder and COO of Hi-Rez Studios, Todd Harris.
This summer, white, Western social justice warriors helpfully explained to Japanese-Americans why they should be offended over Westerners wearing a kimono at an interactive art exhibit in Boston.
Payday 2 producer Almir Listo defended the addition of microtransactions to the game in a recent Reddit AMA in response to overwhelming community backlash at a decision to do the very thing Listo himself previously shamed his fans for suggesting.
Variety reports that Canadian Netflix users will be able to stream the new Star Wars film Star Wars: The Force Awakens eight months after the film is released in theaters due to a quirk of the pay-TV distribution rights timing issue, but in the U.S. the rights will go to Starz.
For years, the advance of artificial intelligence and human augmentation has been forensically debated by three broad factions.
The internet is a virtual primordial soup that creates its own subcultures, mostly uninfluenced by mainstream society, and when it comes to sports, yes they have their own as well; competitive gaming, or for the initiated, “eSports,” where the very best players come together to compete for prestige and prize money.
Full disclosure: I’m a 33 year old white guy. I have all the rhythm of an inebriated sloth, but none of the naturally adorable expressions. When I decided to take on Rock Band 4’s review, it wasn’t as a music game pro.
The United States, as we know it today, was born in an anonymous debate. On September 27, 1787, an anonymous writer using the pen-name “Cato” wrote an essay for the New York press, criticising the proposed US constitution, which was then awaiting ratification by the states. Cautioning against an overly-powerful executive and the establishment of a standing army, the essay soon triggered a response from “Publius,” another pseudonymous author, who argued in favour of the new constitution. By then a third pesudonymous critic, “Brutus,” had also entered the debate.
This September, the U.S invested another $10 million toward helping activists in authoritarian regimes circumvent state censorship of the internet. But the goverment’s attitude to web freedom within its own borders suggests that what it wants for its enemies may not necessarily be what it wants for itself.
The Russian government is operating close to undersea cables, setting off alarms of American officials who believe the Kremlin could cut the lines if tensions continue to escalate.
4th generation Apple TV models went on sale Monday on Apple’s website, promising new features like games, improved apps, a better user experience, and a larger, redesigned remote with Siri and touch functionality.
On October 28th, Batman: Arkham Knight’s troubled PC port will reemerge from the shadows. Originally released in June, Rocksteady has spent more four months attempting to make the game — ported by third-party developer Iron Galaxy — playable.
There is a documentary film on gender movements currently running a Kickstarter campaign that feminism would prefer never sees the light of day. You may be imagining some amateur film made by buffoons bumbling their way through a hit piece on feminism, but you’d be well off the mark. The film is The Red Pill by self professed feminist Cassie Jaye.
Tensions have once again flared between the administrators and moderators of Reddit, after an administrator accused a moderator of /r/videos, a Reddit community with over 9 million subscribers, of “mansplaining.”
The New York attorney general is probing whether three major Internet providers could be short-changing consumers by charging them for faster broadband speeds and failing to deliver the speeds being advertised, according to documents seen by Reuters.
On Friday Apple Insider reported that Apple has been named the defendant in a class action lawsuit filed in the San Jose U.S District Court over a feature called Wi-Fi Assist.
An anonymous hacking group attacked the website of the Egyptian presidency and took it offline for a short time on Thursday, according to a report at Al-Arabiya News.
Naturally self-effacing person that I am, I am mortified to bring you the news that an independent documentary filmmaker, Loren Feldman, has made a feature-length movie about my rapid rise to stardom in the US.
In a livestream with GamesRadar, Halo Franchise Development Director Frank O’Connor mentioned that Halo 5 had “plenty of chance” to be ported to PC in the future.
As Theranos, Inc. was preparing for one of Silicon Valley’s biggest IPO’s when its pin-prick blood test for thousands of diseases was approved by the FDA on July 15, the company was rocked on October 15 by a Wall Street Journal article citing “unnamed” former employees claiming Theranos inflated its testing effectiveness to the FDA.
On January the Thirtieth, in the Two Thousand and Fifteenth Year of our Lord, 18th century piracy adventure Raven’s Cry set sail. It was pretty bad.
Sega has made their offering to the dark god Tzeentch — God of Scheming, Manipulation, and pre-order incentives — on the altar of Creative Assembly’s new interpretation of the Warhammer franchise. Their goal? To hold back the forces of Chaos with a barrier made entirely of cash.
While the game seems to be generating plenty of positive buzz, the biggest fans of Rock Band 4 appear to be the developers themselves.
Fnatic, one of the world’s leading eSports organisations, has found itself embroiled in an internal dispute with its players following the inclusion of several clauses that appear to strip players of their image rights and even power of attorney.
Multiple sources have informed Breitbart that a coalition of the largest tournament organisers in Counter-Strike, namely MLG, CEVO, PGL, Gfinity, FACEIT and StarLadder, are in talks to group together to create a global Grand Prix style circuit for the hugely popular first-person shooter.
Tesla stock plunged -10 percent on Tuesday in a double whammy of bad news as Consumer Reports pulled its “best car ever” designation, and the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) said the company is illegally “bird dogging” to hype sales.
